Top 48 Alfred Nobel's Quotes
#1. Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie
#2. The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
Herbert A. Simon
#3. I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
Peter C. Doherty
#4. If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied
Alfred Nobel
#6. Justice is to be found only in imagination.
Alfred Nobel
#7. In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
Stanford Moore
#8. The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
Alfred Nobel
#9. For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
Alfred Nobel
#10. The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
P. J. O'Rourke
#11. It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Alfred Nobel
#12. The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
Alfred Nobel
#13. Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
Charles H. Townes
#14. As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
P. J. O'Rourke
#15. A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Alfred Nobel
#16. When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
Frederick Sanger
#17. I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
Alfred Nobel
#18. Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.
Bertha Von Suttner
#19. I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
Alfred Nobel
#20. The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
Alfred Nobel
#21. I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
Alfred Nobel
#22. Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Alfred Nobel
#23. Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness:
Bernard Lown
#24. I am one of those who think, like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie
#25. My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
Alfred Nobel
#27. Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
Abdus Salam
#29. DYNAM comes from the Greek dynamis, meaning "power." A dyne is a unit used in measuring force; an instrument that measures force is called a dynamometer. And when Alfred Nobel invented a powerful explosive in 1867, he named it dynamite.
Merriam-Webster
#30. Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline
#31. For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
Alfred Nobel
#32. Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
Alfred Nobel
#33. I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
Alfred Nobel
#35. I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.
Howard Florey
#36. I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
Alfred Nobel
#37. I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
Alfred Day Hershey
#38. On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.
Alfred Nobel
#39. Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel
#40. I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Alfred Nobel
#41. It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.
Michael Spence
#42. Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
Alfred Nobel
#43. Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
Alfred Nobel
#44. A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
Alfred Nobel
#45. One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Alfred Nobel
#47. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.
Alfred Nobel
#48. I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
Alfred Nobel
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